Trackpad is very finicky..??

I have a Satellite C55-B5246 running Windows 8.1 and I'm really not enjoying the track pad on this thing. I'm hoping for some help to figure out what's going on.
I have the icon on my task bar set to display the animated icon so that I can see when it recognizes that I'm touching it.
For some reason while working every few minutes the touchpad just goes completely dead. Everything else on the machine is fine, and if I tab around I can still get around, and I can alt+tab between apps no problem, so the computer itself isn't locked up. The touchpad doesn't work, though, and the animated icon doesn't pick up any activity.
After 10 - 20 seconds of that then it comes back and starts working again.
Also, the tap for click is very unreliable. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 taps before it'll actually click, and what's interesting about that is the animated icon actually does seem to show that it's recognizing my tap, but the "click" still doesn't happen.
I have the latest BIOS installed and I have the latest touchpad driver installed. Any information about what's causing this or how I can fix it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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I have recently bought a mac mini, my first mac. Along with a wireless trackpad and keyboard.
I am not very familar witht the software as i have always used pc but i would like to learn more.
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